Cath Senker

Cath Senker - Author, editor, teacher

With 30 years’ experience in publishing, I have written nearly 170 books for children of all ages, from history, biography, global and social issues to world religions, human geography and environmental topics. I also write for adults. In 2017, I published Stranded in the Six-Day War (see below).

In December 2018, Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty won the 2018 Educational Writers' Award.

Editor

I edit children's educational, trade and  fiction titles; adult non-fiction and craft books; academic reports and online materials. I currently commission and edit the RLF Consultant Fellow blogs.

Teacher

I am a Student Academic Success Advisor at the University of Sussex Business School, offering academic advice to students in one-to-one and group sessions.

Also, I'm a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development workshops for university students. I teach English to refugees and migrants at the Migrant English Project.

Featured Book

Stranded in the Six-Day War

The extraordinary story of the 14 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967.

Listen to a podcast about the story. Watch the Al Jazeera documentary.

This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It's full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.

Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East).

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From my blog

Black Lives Matter protest, London, 2020

Why I want to thank Reni Eddo-Lodge for still talking about race

31 Jul 2020
I’ve just read Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. All white people should read Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book, even if they are anti-racists. Especially if they are anti-racists. For ...
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Davis and Fagah Senker, seated, with daughter Sophie and son Sender

Memories of Stamford Hill

01 Jul 2020
Nowadays, Stamford Hill is associated with the Orthodox Haredi Jewish community. Back in the 1930s, it was a ‘leafy suburb away from the hustle and bustle of the East End.’ Property was cheap and there ...
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Yaakov Goldberg

In search of Yaakov Goldberg

03 Jun 2020
My paternal grandmother was one of eight children, and I have innumerable second cousins. I’ve never got to know many of them. But during lockdown, several of us shared a similar idea to research family ...
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